Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/January 19 to 25, 2020

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (January 19 to 25, 2020)
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The official data is still down, so through |Donald_Cerrone|Coronavirus|1917_(2019_film)|Bad_Boys_for_Life|Murder_of_Odin_Lloyd|Patrick_Mahomes|Aaron_Hernandez other tools we compiled a list spearheaded by a disease outbreak, and also featuring plenty of Super Bowl build-up.


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! About
 * 1
 * Coronavirus
 * style=text-align:right;|3.447.173
 * 2019-nCoV-CDC-23312_without_background.png
 * A group of viruses that cause all sorts of diseases, from the common cold to a nasty pneumonia that struck China (#3), creating panic worldwide and also making some sort of "Coronaravirus" to emerge on Twitter.
 * 2
 * Aaron Hernandez
 * style=text-align:right;|3.037.678
 * Aaron Hernandez cropped.jpg
 * Netflix released Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, a documentary about this troublemaking American football player who got arrested for murder (#15) and killed himself in prison.
 * 3
 * 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
 * style=text-align:right;|at least 1,247,685
 * COVID-19 Outbreak World Map.svg
 * The Chinese city of Wuhan was struck with a new kind of pneumonia without clear cause or effective vaccines, which was discovered as originating from a new kind of coronavirus (#1). Nearly 10 thousand cases have emerged so far, mostly in China, with 213 of them fatal, and all sorts of preventive measures have ensued.
 * 4
 * Patrick Mahomes
 * style=text-align:right;|1.026.569
 * Patrick Mahomes Feb 2019.jpg
 * Still on American football, but someone alive and better regarded: in only his second season as the starter quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs (#25), Mahomes has led the team to the Super Bowl.
 * 5
 * 1917 (2019 film)
 * style=text-align:right;|945.853
 * At close grips1.tif
 * Everything Dunkirk should have been, a gripping war film that never becomes boring (and with its one shot gimmick, that's a feat!). Sam Mendes goes to World War I to tell the story of a soldier who goes through the trenches and wrecked cities of the Western Front to deliver a message, and is being handsomely rewarded, including 10 Academy Award nominations.
 * 6
 * Sex Education (TV series)
 * style=text-align:right;|890.450
 * Fan Expo 2012 - Gillian Anderson 15 (7891590624).jpg
 * Netflix has brought back the comedy-drama where Gillian Anderson (pictured) is the sex therapist mother of awkward teenager Asa Butterfield.
 * 7
 * Conor McGregor
 * style=text-align:right;|862.751
 * Conor McGregor mugshot (2019).jpg
 * After over a year away from the octagon, the last time being an occasion where his posse decided to beat up the guy who defeated him, this Irish MMA fighter returned in UFC 246 and won his match in just 40 seconds.
 * 8
 * Delonte West
 * style=text-align:right;|839.979
 * Delonte West.jpg
 * In some sad basketball news (but not as much as the one that will lead the next report...), this retired player was beaten up in a Washington, D.C. street.
 * 9
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * style=text-align:right;|809.607
 * MLKatPitt1966.jpg
 * January 15 would've been the 81st birthday of this civil rights activist. Instead, his murder in 1968 turned the date into an American holiday.
 * 10
 * Anna May Wong
 * style=text-align:right;|736.783
 * Portrait of Anna May Wong LCCN2004663761.jpg
 * Google used the 97th anniversary of The Toll of the Sea to celebrate its star, the first famous Chinese-American actress.
 * 11
 * Parasite (2019 film)
 * style=text-align:right;|707.586
 * Okja Japan Premiere- Bong Joon-ho (38527206906).jpg
 * No, it's not a sequel to Bong Joon-ho's monster movie The Host. Instead, Bong made a dark comedy with a social message, following a poor family as they begin to leech on a rich household - and some surprises make things go downhill. Parasite has become one of South Korea's most successful movies ever, and is a favorite to win the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
 * 12
 * Deaths in 2020
 * style=text-align:right;|685.032
 * Blinking skull.jpg
 * rowspan=2|The yearly death list got an illustrious addition in Monty Python member Terry Jones, who now reunites with Graham Chapman to make the afterlife funnier. Here's to him.
 * 13
 * Terry Jones
 * style=text-align:right;| 667.758
 * Monty Python Live 02-07-14 12 47 22 (14415436819).jpg
 * 14
 * List of Super Bowl champions
 * style=text-align:right;|651.097
 * SF 49ers HQ tophy wall.JPG
 * What a relief in that the New England Patriots won't extend their lead here any further. Instead, either the San Francisco 49ers will tie them and the Pittsburgh Steelers with six trophies, or the Kansas City Chiefs will get their second title.
 * 15
 * Bad Boys for Life
 * style=text-align:right;| 635.526
 * WillSmithVogueTaiwan2019.jpg
 * Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a third round as bickering Miami cops, and in spite of (or because...) director Michael Bay has been replaced, Bad Boys for Life got surprisingly positive reviews to go along with its opening atop the box office.
 * 16
 * Murder of Odin Lloyd
 * style=text-align:right;|614.072
 * Our #2 went to prison for this, as he supposedly killed this friend of his (who was dating his fiancée's sister) back in 2013.
 * 17
 * UFC 246
 * style=text-align:right;| 592.653
 * rowspan=2|Donald Cerrone.jpg
 * rowspan=2|Las Vegas hosted the latest MMA event, where the main card had a "Cowboy" defeated by a returning "Notorious" (#6).
 * 18
 * Donald Cerrone
 * style=text-align:right;|538.123
 * 19
 * Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
 * style=text-align:right;|549.176
 * Prince Harry and Ms. Markle visit Titanic Belfast (40973153941).png
 * As the Brits prepared for January 31st's Brexit, they continued to discuss the Royal Family's Megxit.
 * 20
 * Andy Reid
 * style=text-align:right;|532.910
 * Andy Reid and Dani Welniak.JPG
 * rowspan=2|Super Bowl LIV will be contested between the team coached by Andy Reid (#25) and the one which has Jimmy Garopolo as its quarterback - it might be his first win on the field, given he was Tom Brady's backup in two of his titles.
 * 21
 * Jimmy Garoppolo
 * style=text-align:right;| 531.067
 * Jimmy Garoppolo 49ers (cropped).jpg
 * 22
 * Royal Rumble (2020)
 * style=text-align:right;| 509.952
 * WrestleMania 32 Axxess 2016-03-31 21-45-15 ILCE-6000 4643 DxO (26361306224).jpg
 * Houston hosted this WWE pantomime, featuring male and female versions of the title fight with 30 wrestlers, won by Drew McIntyre and Charlotte Flair (pictured), respectively.
 * 23
 * Severe acute respiratory syndrome
 * style=text-align:right;| 509.248
 * Lung tissue pathology due to SARS - PHIL 3659 lores.jpg
 * The last coronavirus (#1) outbreak to create panic was SARS back in 2002-2003 (time flies, doesn't it?), also starting in China and causing over 700 deaths.
 * 24
 * Joker (2019 film)
 * style=text-align:right;| 485.839
 * Joker (2019) cosplay 3.jpg
 * Film awards season is featuring heavily the cross between Martin Scorsese and DC Comics.
 * 25
 * Kansas City Chiefs
 * style=text-align:right;|483.718
 * Secretary Castro Visits Kansas City Area (18158491509).jpg
 * Absent from the Super Bowl since the fourth one, back in 1969, the team of our #4 finally got back in the NFL decision. If the city's baseball team could win it all back in 2015, the Missouri (and Kansas too, it's complicated) faithful can hope for another victory.
 * }
 * style=text-align:right;|538.123
 * 19
 * Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
 * style=text-align:right;|549.176
 * Prince Harry and Ms. Markle visit Titanic Belfast (40973153941).png
 * As the Brits prepared for January 31st's Brexit, they continued to discuss the Royal Family's Megxit.
 * 20
 * Andy Reid
 * style=text-align:right;|532.910
 * Andy Reid and Dani Welniak.JPG
 * rowspan=2|Super Bowl LIV will be contested between the team coached by Andy Reid (#25) and the one which has Jimmy Garopolo as its quarterback - it might be his first win on the field, given he was Tom Brady's backup in two of his titles.
 * 21
 * Jimmy Garoppolo
 * style=text-align:right;| 531.067
 * Jimmy Garoppolo 49ers (cropped).jpg
 * 22
 * Royal Rumble (2020)
 * style=text-align:right;| 509.952
 * WrestleMania 32 Axxess 2016-03-31 21-45-15 ILCE-6000 4643 DxO (26361306224).jpg
 * Houston hosted this WWE pantomime, featuring male and female versions of the title fight with 30 wrestlers, won by Drew McIntyre and Charlotte Flair (pictured), respectively.
 * 23
 * Severe acute respiratory syndrome
 * style=text-align:right;| 509.248
 * Lung tissue pathology due to SARS - PHIL 3659 lores.jpg
 * The last coronavirus (#1) outbreak to create panic was SARS back in 2002-2003 (time flies, doesn't it?), also starting in China and causing over 700 deaths.
 * 24
 * Joker (2019 film)
 * style=text-align:right;| 485.839
 * Joker (2019) cosplay 3.jpg
 * Film awards season is featuring heavily the cross between Martin Scorsese and DC Comics.
 * 25
 * Kansas City Chiefs
 * style=text-align:right;|483.718
 * Secretary Castro Visits Kansas City Area (18158491509).jpg
 * Absent from the Super Bowl since the fourth one, back in 1969, the team of our #4 finally got back in the NFL decision. If the city's baseball team could win it all back in 2015, the Missouri (and Kansas too, it's complicated) faithful can hope for another victory.
 * }
 * 24
 * Joker (2019 film)
 * style=text-align:right;| 485.839
 * Joker (2019) cosplay 3.jpg
 * Film awards season is featuring heavily the cross between Martin Scorsese and DC Comics.
 * 25
 * Kansas City Chiefs
 * style=text-align:right;|483.718
 * Secretary Castro Visits Kansas City Area (18158491509).jpg
 * Absent from the Super Bowl since the fourth one, back in 1969, the team of our #4 finally got back in the NFL decision. If the city's baseball team could win it all back in 2015, the Missouri (and Kansas too, it's complicated) faithful can hope for another victory.
 * }
 * style=text-align:right;|483.718
 * Secretary Castro Visits Kansas City Area (18158491509).jpg
 * Absent from the Super Bowl since the fourth one, back in 1969, the team of our #4 finally got back in the NFL decision. If the city's baseball team could win it all back in 2015, the Missouri (and Kansas too, it's complicated) faithful can hope for another victory.
 * }